Quality Control and Evaluation of Herbal Drugs: Evaluating Natural Products and Traditional Medicine

Quality Control and Evaluation of Herbal Drugs: Approaches for Evaluating Natural Products and Traditional Medicine brings together current thinking and practice in the quality control and standardization of herbal drugs. As the use of herbal medicine in therapeutics is rising in both developed and developing countries, this book facilitates the development of quality standards for these medicines. Written by Pulok K. Mukherjee, a leader in the field, the book describes methods, techniques and approaches for evaluating their purity, quality, safety and efficacy. Particular attention is paid to methods that assess activity, the compounds responsible, and their underlying mechanisms of action.

The book describes the quality control parameters followed in India and other countries, including Japan, China, Bangladesh, Srilanka and other Asian countries, as well as the regulatory profiles of the European Union and North America. Users will find it to be a comprehensive resource on bio-prospecting for traditional-medicine-inspired drug discovery and development.

Provides new information on the research and development of natural remediesIncludes essential reading on the study and use of natural resources for preventative or healing purposesReferences global organizations, such as the WHO, USFDA, CDSCO, TCM and others to serve as a comprehensive document for enforcement agencies, NGOS and regulatory authorities Aids in developing basic knowledge of the various techniques of quality evaluation, such as macroscopy, microscopy, HPTLC, HPLC and LC-MS

1. Traditional systems of medicines and harmonization 2. Ethnopharmacology and ethnomedicines-inspired drug development 3. Quality evaluation of herbal medicines: Challenges and opportunities 4. Qualitative analysis for evaluation of herbal drugs 5. Morphological and microscopical evaluations 6. Extraction and other downstream procedures for evaluation of herbal drugs 7. Bioactive phyto-components and their analysis 8. Thin layer chromatography for evaluation of herbal drugs 9. High performance thin layer chromatography (HPTLC) for analysis of herbal drugs 10. High performance liquid chromatography for analysis of herbal drugs 11. LC-MS: A rapid technique for understanding the plant metabolomic analysis 12. Chemo-profiling and marker analysis for quality evaluation of herbal drugs 13. Bioassay guided isolation and evaluation of herbal drugs 14. Enzyme inhibition studies for evaluation of herbal drugs 15. Evaluation of herbal drugs for antimicrobial and parasiticidal effects 16. Antiviral evaluation of herbal drugs 17. Plant metabolomics and quality evaluation of herbal drugs 18. Safety related quality issues for development of herbal drugs 19. Quality assurance of herbal drugs and stability testing 20. Phytopharmaceuitcals, nutraceuticals and their evaluation 21. Regulatory harmonization and good quality practices for development of herbal medicine